Despite a clear ruling from the Supreme Court bringing marriage equality to all 50 states, politicians in red states are making it clear they'll do anything and everything to drag their feet in granting gay couples their constitutional rights.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a statement on Sunday encouraging state workers to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if it violated their religious beliefs.

Paxton told judges, clerks and others that the government "cannot force them to conduct same-sex wedding ceremonies over their religious objections."

"Numerous lawyers stand ready to assist clerks defending their religious beliefs, in many cases on a pro-bono basis," he added, "and I will do everything I can from this office to be a public voice for those standing in defense of their rights."

Texas' Republican Governor, Greg Abbott, released a similar statement, declaring "No Texan is required by the Supreme Court's decision to act contrary to his or her religious beliefs regarding marriage."

State Sen. Jose Rodriguez of El Paso, a Democrat, said Paxton  "erred grievously in giving [clerks] unsolicited advice that may subject them to liability in both their individual and official capacity, and could result in their removal from office for failure to uphold the law."

Elsewhere, Attorney generals in Louisiana and Mississippi are also dragging their feet when it comes to enforcing the Constitution.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood told county clerks on Friday that the Supreme Court's decision was not "immediately effective." (He later retracted that directive.) And one Mississippi court clerk Linda Barnette has already resigned, declaring "I choose to obey God rather than man."

Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is also saying clerks don't have to do their job.

"The ruling in Obergefell does not permit states to bar same-sex couples from marriage, but the ruling in no way forces specific individuals to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs, or to perform or facilitate same sex marriages," his legal counsel wrote in a memo.

Louisiana was the only state in the nation not to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday. (By Monday, some parishes reported they had started giving them out.)

Last month, Jindal also signed an executive order protecting anti-LGBT bigotry, disguised as a religious freedom measure. As a result IBM cancelled a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday for its new National Service Center.